English: Program - English Studies: Articles

Core Databases

Here, you'll find a list of major
databases that contain full-text and/or citations for a variety of
journals relevant to English. These are good starting points for
research in various areas related to English studies:

The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles and has extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive.

is a searchable full text database of over 95,000 titles published between 1475 and 1700. Over 125,000 titles anticipated (new titles are added each year). Searchable by author, title, subject & imprint information.

provides indexing and abstracting of 1199 international journals in linguistics and language use from 1973 to the present. An important source for researchers in language teaching, linguistics, discourse studies, computer science, psychology, and more.

provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. The Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Our licence allows only one user at a time. Be sure to log-out when you are done.

is the premiere reference tool for the critical study of language, literature, and folklore. It provides citations to books, book chapters, periodical articles, and dissertations in all languages for all periods beginning with the Middle Ages.

contains the full text of the articles from various biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson in current affairs, history, literature, children's literature, music, film, and art. The biographies are enhanced with recent citations from H.W. Wilson's Biography Index and with citations and abstracts from H.W. Wilson's Humanities Abstracts and Book Review Digest (Current Biography does not contain the citations and abstracts from Humanities Abstracts and Book Review Digest).

Specialized Databases

Search and display the text of 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers. Most of the newspapers are from England, Ireland, and Scotland, with a handful from the British colonies in the Americas and Asia. Examples of newspapers included are: British Journal, British Chronicle, Evening Post, General Advertiser, Hoey’s Dublin Mercury, London Chronicle, London Morning Penny Post, Original Weekly Journal, Whitehall Evening Post.

19th Century Masterfile is a vast "Index of Indexes", and is the largest resource for historical research prior to 1925. It brings together over 60 subject indexes to: Periodicals;Newspapers;Books;US Congressional RecordUS and UK Government Documents; and US Patents.

contains images of every page of some 150,000 books published during the 18th century. Fulltext searching enables access to approximately 26 million pages of primary information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

provides full color images of the original medieval manuscripts of 5 15th century families: Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor, and Armburgh. The collection's full text can be searched and viewed with the original images of the transcripts simultaneously. The database includes tools that are useful for teaching such as a visual gallery, an interactive map, and more.

consists of works about the North, Central & South America, the Arctic & Antarctica and the West Indies, published not only in the United States but internationally. This resource offers original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition. It also covers such topics as American women, cities and states, the Civil War, immigration and politics, etc.

If you know the title of the journal, then you can search to see if it is available online and if the article is also available. Online journals vary in availability, so be sure to check listed dates.

In addition, you can get a list of e-journals by catagory. You'll find Linguistics, Philsophy, Society and Culture, etc. under "Art and Humanities". Be sure to also look at "Social Sciences, where you'll find catagories such as Gender Studies, Political Science, and Sociology.